Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 2 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 3 | I did n't say anything about this to my parents at the time , but the sight haunted me for years . |
| 4 | Wanted to meet you for years . |
| 5 | And a good example is Carl Perkins : we did n't know it until years later , but Carl and I were born and raised within fourteen miles of each other , and I 'm only about three , four months older than he is . |
| 6 | The girl you told me about years ago . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't really seen me for years . ’ |
| 8 | I guess i have to start watching these games again sometime soon — have nt seen them for years — i could relive the period — watching the games and sending out match reports to rec.sport.soccer the day after — 4 years after the events took place — sort of a madmans project i guess … but could have been — really — fun if i had the time ( ie no work & no wife/kid … ) |
| 9 | And I 've seen them for years and years , twenty odd more than that years , beautiful , |
| 10 | I have n't seen them for years . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , yes , we have been hunting them for years . |
| 12 | I have probably saved you from years of frustration , waiting and hoping for someone good enough to come along and kill the one I have taken from you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ My dear , ’ she said , ‘ I have n't seen you for years . |
| 14 | Come on , Edouard — I 've hardly seen you in years . |
| 15 | I 've sought him for years . |
| 16 | He had n't seen him for years but knew of his bass playing . |
| 17 | ‘ Have n't seen him for years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Have n't seen him for years , ’ said Coffin regretfully . |
| 19 | We have n't seen him for years the bloody queer . |
| 20 | I have n't seen him in years , but he wo n't have changed . |
| 21 | Dad hated old Gran anyway , we had n't seen her for years and she always sent me Californian Poppy Bath Salts for Christmas . |
| 22 | and of course , well she was er I have n't seen her for years and years |
| 23 | I 've never seen her for years |
| 24 | I have n't seen her in years , I 'm not even sure if I 'd recognize her … " she finished doubtfully . |
| 25 | Jacob , looking at her , thought she seemed happier than he had seen her in years . |
| 26 | We 've done it for years , even won the FA Cup , but I do n't now how long I can go on . |
| 27 | For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow . |
| 28 | She 's done it for years . ) |
| 29 | But if you try and go back to it , when you have n't done it for years , you realize how complicated it was . |
| 30 | I 've done it for years , and if I may say it myself , I 'm quite good at it . |